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Unhappie is that mane whoje attes doth procuer The miferi of this houfe m pnfon to induer. 1576. Thomas Clarke. (In another place.) -^ " Hit is the poynt of a wyfe man to try and then trufte For hapy is he who fyndeth one that is jujl. T. C." Dod, in his Church Hiftory r (Vol II. p. 75) mentions a "Thomas Clarke (probably this prifoner) a prieft of the Roman communion, but of what order he did not find," adding, that " He became a proteftant aud made his recantation ferrnon. at St. Paul's Crofs, July i, 1593." " Thomas Miagh 1581. " Thomas Miagh which lieth hire alone That fayne wold from hens liegon By torture Jlraunge my troyth was tried Yet of my tibertie denied. 1581. Thomas Miagh." rr'ijn sit! boleaonc'j . -I// iti I find no account of this prifoner, the fmcerity of whofe wiflies to be fet at liberty no one will be inclined to call in queftion. 3d* no l (i0 [^^war^Cu^nis6^ .- ^. For whatever crime this perfon had been made a prifoner, he oc- curs afterwards as fent into exile, as one of an enterprifing ipirit, and fit to be deputed as a Romifh emhTary to England. Strype, in his Annals, Vol. III. p. 318, mentions a letter from Robert Turner, a native of Devonfhire, public profeiTor of Divinity at Ingolftade in Germany, A. D. 1585, to cardinal Allen at Rome, recommending an Engliih man, one Edward Coffin, ready at his fervice, to be ad- mitted into the Engliflr college at Rome, (where Allen was chief) being